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A motorist was rescued from Lake Pontchartrain following an accident on the Causeway Saturday (May 31) afternoon. The 26-year-old man was driving a pickup truck heading southbound when his vehicle went over the railing and into the lake.
David Grunfeld, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
(David Grunfeld, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)

SLIDELL, Louisiana -- A driver whose pickup truck went over the railing of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway was rescued by several other motorists who stopped on the bridge to come to his aid Saturday afternoon, according to a nola.com report.

The pickup driven by a 26-year-old River Ridge man plunged into the lake from the southbound span a couple miles from the south shore, authorities said.

Another driver who happened upon the scene said he witnessed several people on the bridge and one good Samaritan jump into the lake to save the driver whose vehicle had gone over the side.

David Grunfeld, a photographer for NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune was driving by at the time of the accident and witnessed a man being pulled out of the water.

"It was incredible,'' Grunfeld said of the scene and the calmness of the rescuers.

Grunfeld said he came upon the accident scene probably just minutes after it occurred. He said a man in a white t-shirt jumped from the bridge into the water to help the motorist whose vehicle had gone over the side. Several other people on the bridge, using a rope, then pulled both men back onto the bridge.